Doggy Midi10 Grooms

The middle size is where the widest range of coats live, and where a package earns its money by covering all of them. A Border Collie, a Spaniel, a Labrador, a medium doodle, a Staffie — the same weight band, and four completely different grooming jobs.

That is why the full treatment suits this size so well. The trim-and-or-shave is decided per session rather than fixed, so the same package handles the Collie who needs a de-shed and a tidy, the Spaniel who needs feet and ears done properly, and the doodle who needs a genuine clip. You're not buying one haircut ten times; you're buying ten grooms that get decided as the coat needs them.

Ten across a year is roughly one every five weeks. For most medium dogs that's the interval where the coat stays on top of things without the skin ever getting dried out — frequent enough that a groom is maintenance rather than rescue.

The dogs it helps most are the ones on the edge of being a problem: the Collie whose feathering is starting to tangle behind the legs, the Spaniel whose ears haven't been cleaned in months, the doodle whose owner has discovered that "doesn't shed" and "low maintenance" are not the same sentence.

Ten is the single-dog pack. If there are two medium dogs in the house, the twenty gives each of them a groom a month and is the one to look at.

R400 a groom, ten of them.

Before we come

The package covers your household, not one dog. Two dogs, three dogs — draw on the same pot for all of them. Tell us which dogs it's for when you book and we'll keep separate notes for each: what clip, what shampoo, what they object to, what your vet has said. From the second groom onwards that makes a real difference. Book the sessions as you need them. A package isn't a schedule, it's a pot of grooms to draw on. Most owners settle into a rhythm after the first two or three; if you'd rather we just remind you when one's about due, say so and we will. Tell us what you want each time, and expect it to change. "Trim and/or shave" means the decision is yours session by session — shorter for December, left longer through winter, tidy for a wedding. A package doesn't lock you into one look. Tell us how she is about being handled, honestly. Nail trims, ear cleaning and anal glands are the parts dogs object to most, and a dog who's had a bad experience somewhere else will tell us by objecting early. That's useful information, not a problem — but we'd rather know before than discover it. Anything your vet has flagged, we need to know: skin conditions, allergies, arthritis, a heart murmur, a healing wound, or her age if she's elderly. Older dogs tire faster and we work shorter and gentler. A groom is not a health check, but it's often where something gets noticed. Working over a whole dog with hands and clippers, we sometimes find lumps, sore patches, ear infections or fleas before an owner does. We'll always tell you. We won't ever diagnose it — that's your vet's job. Between grooms, brushing is the thing that matters. Five minutes a few times a week on a long or double coat prevents most of the matting we'd otherwise have to cut out. If she's a doodle or a poodle cross, be realistic about the interval. Those coats mat faster than almost anything else in this weight band, and ten a year may not be enough — see the 20-session pack. We'll tell you honestly after a groom or two. Spaniel and drop-eared breeds: ears every time. It's in every groom and it's the single most useful part for those breeds, because ear infections start quietly.